In periods of speedy progress , it seems , stubborn reactionaries at least enjoy a certain scarcity value .
在快速进步的社会时期，看起来，顽固的反动派至少享有了某种稀缺的价值。
In the interview , he uttered one of his iconic sayings : " all reactionaries are paper tigers . "
在那次采访中，他说出了他标志性的语录之一：“一切反动派都是纸老虎。”
But he nevertheless rejects the reactionaries who dismiss modernism : " for their impulse is not only to crush every new talent as it appears but to castrate the past as well . "
He urged the russian people to defend their hard-won democracy . In effect he was telling the reactionaries you may steal our freedom but you 'll have to do it over my dead body .
But all the media of modern consciousness-from the printing press to radio and the movies-were used just as readily by authoritarian reactionaries , and then by modern totalitarians , to reduce liberty and enforce conformity as they ever were by libertarians to expand it .
